I think I am careful with my plant labels and remember that I divided a Cattleya Bob Betts ‘White Lightning’, making a new label for the smaller of the divisions. It took several years for this plant to bloom, but when it did in December 2021, I had a shock.
Not a Bob Betts, but a large coerulea flower with a malformed labellum! I had no idea what plant I might have mislabeled. I decided to grow it for one more year and it bloomed about 10 days ago: same flower.
I don’t mind throwing a genetic mistake away, but I sure wish I could remember what the cross might have been. I buy few complex Cattleyas and this isn’t a species, so I am thinking it might have been a primary hybrid. I don’t think it is solvable and I am tired of thinking about it and looking at the poor thing.
Good-bye mystery, into the bin with you.
Not a Bob Betts, but a large coerulea flower with a malformed labellum! I had no idea what plant I might have mislabeled. I decided to grow it for one more year and it bloomed about 10 days ago: same flower.
I don’t mind throwing a genetic mistake away, but I sure wish I could remember what the cross might have been. I buy few complex Cattleyas and this isn’t a species, so I am thinking it might have been a primary hybrid. I don’t think it is solvable and I am tired of thinking about it and looking at the poor thing.
Good-bye mystery, into the bin with you.